Rodrigues Benjamin Olinde (1 results)

Condition: very good. Paris, Bureau du Globe 1831. Octavo 16pp, in modern plain card wrapper. Nonfatal stain in the bottom edge. Inscribed on the title is 'Tirage 5000'; surely the number of copies printed, not a claim that this is the 5000th printing. Rodrigues was that horror of every anti-semite, a Jewish banker. He was also a mathematician with his own formula and a small but growing group of modern champions pointing out his ignored work, later discovered anew by others who got the honours. But that's not important here. After Saint-Simon's death in 1825 - he had been supported by Rodrigues in his final miserable years - Rodrigues and his former student Enfantin became joint partners in running the business, so to speak. Of course they ruptured and in 1832 Rodrigues claimed he was the true apostle. It didn't work so well; he has largely disappeared from the history of the movement. …